Researchers have finally mapped Jupiter’s upper atmosphere with unmatched detail, exposing a stable, planet-wide structure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than ...

Researchers have revealed that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere maintains a stable, planet-wide structure that has persisted over ...

New research suggests that Jupiter wasn’t just a giant planet in its early years — it was a cosmic force that reshaped the entire solar system. Scientists at Rice University used advanced simulations ...

NASA reveals that Jupiter's size is smaller and flatter than previously thought, changing key models of the current Solar ...

Astronomers have spotted some bizarre patterns in Jupiter's atmosphere, just above its famous Great Red Spot. The region was originally thought of as quite boring, but has now been discovered to be ...

SAN ANTONIO — Oct. 9, 2007 — During the first traversal nearly straight down any planet’s magnetotail, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard New Horizons gathered remarkable new data on ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study, in a ...

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...